How technology disrupted the truth – “Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism”

Spatial Bodies – “Spatial Bodies depicts the urban landscape and architectural bodies as an autonomous living and self replicating organism. Domesticated and cultivated only by its own nature. A vast concrete vegetation, oscillating between order and chaos.”

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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session) – “Human bodily materials are frequently invested with highly symbolic cultural power and complex visceral and emotional entanglements, thus the use of human biomatter as art medium opens up an intriguing cultural space to reflect critically upon the relationships between materiality, aesthetics, affective response, ethics and the production of cultural meaning.”

A police abolitionist’s response to being hit by a car at BLM protest – “I don’t need the cops and their violence to make this situation better for me because we handled it in the streets. It’s over. The violence of the police, even though it’s neater and more socially acceptable, is far worse than the justice we dished out. As mad as I am, I don’t want to see that dude put in handcuffs, locked in a cage and facing charges that will follow him the rest of his life. I’ve been to jail. I’ve been beat by the cops and I’ve had charges and I don’t wish that on anybody.”

David Doo-doo – “I’m a singer-songwriter of doo-doos and used to be Prime Minister. A bot by M Plummer-Fernandez”

Putin trolls CIA on Edward Snowden – “Mr Snowden believes he is fighting for human rights and he has devoted his life to this. He is very young. I don’t know how he is going to live. I’m not kidding. How is he going to live? For now, he is in Russia. But then what?”

VPN Provider PIA Exits Russia After Server Seizures – “Private Internet Access is informing users that some of its servers in Russia may have been seized by the authorities. The company believes that it may have been targeted due to its strict no-logging policy, something which puts it at odds with Russian data-retention rules.”

Texture is Born – “I’m very proud to announce the official release of our interactive fiction authoring tool, Texture!” Co-autoring interactive tool

David Cameron’s Swan Song (ringtone) – “David Cameron hums an odd tune and then issues a stout “Right,” having just stepped aside as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in favour of Theresa May”

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